[agitator]

Let's look at the $96 BILLION the article mentioned and maybe put that figure in a little different perspective.

I don't think most people would mind living in a bran-spankin-new $250,000 house that was fully paid for with cash.

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Well, you could buy 4 of those houses with cash for every $1,000,000 tax dollars.

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Another way of saying "BILLION" is one-thousand-million dollars. Thats 1000 x $1,000,000.

4000 of these to every billion tax dollars

So that means every billion dollars could buy 4000 bran-spankin-new $250,000 houses. You could make a nice town full of houses out of that.

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384,000 of these to 96 thousand million dollars

Ninety six thousand million dollars would buy 384,000 bran-spankin-new $250,000 houses. You could make a nice small city full of houses out of that.

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That's 384,000 of those nice, fully paid, bran-spankin-new $250,000 houses EVERY YEAR for that social welfare budget. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to federal spending. Pleasant thought, isn't it?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

You PLAY ALOT of monopoly dont you?

[Calico Cat]

That's a $250,000 house? Here in Portland, Oregon, you'd pay $500,000 for that house. I want to live where you live!

[RaceBannon]

Where do I sign up???

[Little Bill]

That house is $400,000 in Mass., in some areas $450,000, I built the exact same thing in 1977 for $42,000.

[meadsjn]

That's 384,000 of those nice, fully paid, bran-spankin-new $250,000 houses EVERY YEAR for that social welfare budget.

Thanks for putting that in perspective. You could take it further (384,000 families * ~4 = ~1.5 million population, or 3 cities like Des Moines) -- but I've seen enough.